Slow Luxury Travels

The onsen at the <n>Takinoya</n> ryokan in Noboribetsu, Japan.

A view combining nature with <n>Brutalist</n> and <n>Wabi-sabi</n> design, via <n>PURPLE+HAZEL.studio</n>.

A steward aboard the <n>Belmond</n> <n>Venice Simplon-Orient-Express</n> for its <n>Istanbul to Paris Journey</n>.

The essence of nature, the elegance of luxury.

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## **How To Cherish Life**

Like most people, you are probably waiting for something to happen. Maybe you are waiting to fall in love. Maybe you are waiting for your career to take off. But this is the problem. You are eager to get some place other than where you are. You want to be somewhere in the distance where the grass is greener. However, the grass is never greener, but it does fade. It fades and becomes something else. Because life is constantly changing.

When life does change, you will probably miss the way it was. You may miss those long morning drives or walks to the office, or those hectic family gatherings. You may miss them because those moments are finite - you will only travel those streets and see those people a certain amount of times.

Every time you do something that is one less time you do it. One day you will do something the final time and you will rarely know when that day comes.

For all you know, today might be the last time you walk in a particular neighborhood. Or it might be the last time you smile at a particular someone. To think otherwise, would be foolish. Nothing is guaranteed, except this moment. Your only ‘real’ choice is to cherish every exchange like it is your last - because it very well might be.

Therefore, the best way to cherish life is to remind yourself of life’s impermanence. It is to remember that every time you see someone that is one less time you see them. It is to remember that every time you go somewhere that is one less time you visit. By doing this, you naturally slow down. Almost like a reflex, you start to truly live.

<n>Space Available</n> (1977), a painting by <n>John Baldessari</n>.

Offset printed lookbook for the Swiss brand <n>Favorit & Co</n>.

“Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.”

Tea plantation in the <n>Azores</n>. Photo by <n>Matthias Groeneveld</n>.

<n>Lemon cake</n> on an August afternoon. Photo by <n>Eve Arabian</n>.

Ancient Ritual

<n>Atami Onsen</n>, a 2021 digital artwork by 3D artist <n>Kamala Bali</n>.

A list of '10 luxuries in life' by author <n>Vex King</n>.

A part of yourself is completely unexplored till you meet a particular person or go to a particular place.

The <n>minimalist</n> <n>Masseria Moroseta</n> farmhouse in Ostuni, Italy.

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The <n>Gourd Tunnel</n> at <n>Riverford Organics</n> near Buckfastleigh, Devon, photographed circa 2013.

“People sometimes fail to live
because they are always 
preparing to live”

— Alan Watts

To be slow is not merely to decrease the pace of life. It’s about taking the time to reconsider our actions and think more deeply and responsibly about how we live.



We want to nourish ourselves on what Thoreau called “the tonic of wildness” and live evermore in the moment so that we can inhabit an existence that is “more elastic, more starry, more immortal.” Or in the words of Rachel Carson, the mother of the green movement: “One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, ‘What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?’”

Breakfast in a cabin aboard the <n>Venice Simplon-Orient-Express</n>.

A hot air balloon over <n>Serengeti National Park</n>, Tanzania. Photo by <n>Meliá Serengeti Lodge</n>.

A <n>Tavolata</n> social dining experience by <n>NEST Italy</n> in a wheatfield in <n>Sicily</n>.

<n>One - Xing Ping, Guangxi, China</n> (2005) by artist <n>Pierre Sernet</n>.

A view from the <n>Moni Emvasis Luxury Suites</n> in Monemvasia, Greece.